Taiwan should only agree to the torch route on the condition that Taiwan is seen as an international route and not a domestic route and leave it to China to accept or refect this offer...of course China will reject it but this will make China look uncompliant rather than Taiwan and also publicize Taiwan's quest for official independance.

In addition, James Clad, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at Georgetown University, told me, Singapore, and Singapore's government, refect demographic dominance by the ethnic Chinese of the island's 4.0 million population.